Last week when much of the world was arm wrestling over cheap tellys in Tesco, we gave away some shirts for the price of postage. Follow us on Instagram for more fun in the future. These lovely boys did.

Public service announcement. We have just been informed that there is a bootleg out of EPs of RP. White vinyl with a Corpus Christi catalogue number. We have nothing to do with this. If this is anything as poorly produced as that hideous Death Church piece of garbage from last year, it’s truly the same as taking your money and setting it on fire.
We are presently working on a very very much nicer reissue of EPs of RP which will be something worth waiting for.
We appreciate your support.
But you know, free will.
Your choice.
Thanks.

For our part, it’s probably even more galling than that wretchedly poor quality Death Church effort, as this one is trying to pass itself off as being on Corpus Christi, which of course, it isn’t.

Please don’t be fooled by this shabby product. We have a really special reissue of EPs of RP right around the corner.

Gee Vaucher’s film, ‘Angel’, is not so much a movie as a study of stillness wherein the standard exaggerated dramas and sound-bite trickeries of Hollywood are replaced with a profound introversion: a meditation. For some forty-five minutes we are asked to consider a young girl staring back at us, the camera. Sometimes she appears amused, sometimes accusatory, sometimes removed, sometimes present, but because we are given few clues as to her real condition, so those reflections are almost certainly expressions more of our psychologies than hers. In this sense she acts as an angel within, offering us an opportunity to consider our own deeper selves and, for once, to escape the more often than not cynical and manipulative contrivances of the entertainment industry.

In the truest sense, Gee Vaucher is a rebel artist with a cause. Having been born into the greyness of post-war Britain, she sought from the start to find and fly her own colours both for and against her working class roots (which in those days did not easily accommodate artistic aspirations). Through a mixture of rugged self-determination and a natural gift for line, form and colour, she was able to assert herself as an artist. Following this path, she gained a place at art school and then went on to subvert her enormous commercial potential (notably as a much in demand illustrator in 70s NYC) into what became widely accepted as being seminal to the protest art of the 1980s. However, her history with the anarchist band Crass during that period has been well documented elsewhere, and tells only one part of the story.

By seeing her art as essentially a tool for social change, Gee Vaucher has ducked and weaved her way through whatever medium might best express whatever it is that she seeks to say. Within paintings, drawings, collages, prints, films, happenings, sculptures, and soundscapes, her singular demand for human rights, dignity and fairness is always manifest. Expecting (and more often than not demanding) no returns, she has remained a resolute outsider, free to express herself as she desires, and completely divorced from any commercial consideration. In the laissez faire world of postmodernist pretensions her bohemianism is as laudable as her work is illuminating. Those who cannot see the light are those who are not looking for it.

Penny Rimbaud will be taking part in HowTheLightGetsIn,the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, in Hay from 22nd May – 1st June 2014. Bringing together world-leading scientists, musicians, philosophers and politicians including Roger Penrose, Bernard-Henri Levy, Laurie Penny, Charlotte Church, George Galloway, David Nutt, Katie Derham, Molotov Jukebox, Owen Jones, and Mr. Scruff for debates, talks, and wild parties, uncovers the uncovering the new heresies that might become the truths of the future. Culture Minister Ed Vaizey described the festival as a ‘world-leading’ forum of ideas, the Guardian says it is leading Britain back to ‘big thinking’, and the New Scientist hails it as ‘a storming success’.

Penny’s Events:
31st May – The Call of Silence
From Cicero to Clinton, Shakespeare to Twitter, eloquence is power. But for some philosophers silence rather than speech is the means to approach the deepest puzzles. Might silence be the route to understanding and a better world? Or is this the reserve of saints, fools and madmen? Laurie Taylor goes in search of silence with author and former priest Mark Vernon, poet, musician and Crass founder Penny Rimbaud and philosopher of language Emma Borg. Laurie Taylor hosts.

31st May – Blowing in the Wind From Miley Cyrus to Pussy Riot, musicians promote themselves as heretics. Yet for all the taboo-smashing, outrageous misbehaviour and radical political advocacy, famous musicians live lifestyles of wealth and privilege. Is popular music a hypocritical and conservative force? Or does rock’n’roll have the power to change the world? Filmmaker Julien Temple, Jesus and The Mary Chain’s John Moore, Times columnist Tanya Gold, and founder of legendary punk outfit Crass Penny Rimbaud debate the radicalness of pop. Caspar Melville hosts.

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